Ability is poor men's wealth

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.